RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Andy Abshagen
Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check and it is not owned by RedHat at all. Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and wanted to play a joke on everyone else. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Denis Havlik
:>Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check :>and it is not owned by RedHat at all. :>Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and :>wanted to play a joke on everyone else. This is the best practical joke I have seen in the long time...

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 01:16 AM 11/14/99 +0100, Denis Havlik wrote: >:>Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check >:>and it is not owned by RedHat at all. >:>Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and >:>wanted to play a joke on everyone else. > >This is t

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Derek Simkowiak
> Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. Oops, I wasn't thinking before when I said someone submitted it to Internic with that address. They just configured their bind server that way. I guess it's time for a cup of coffee... --Derek

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Derek Simkowiak
> I was not avare that one can put "private" IP - addresses in "public" DNS. > Actually the fact that 127.0.0.1 address gets resolved over "public" DNS > at all sounds completely weird to me. I have always thought > all the internet infrastructure ignores non-routable IP-addreses. You're

Re: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-15 Thread Chris Roupp
Humm... i wonder what that bogus address does to web bots. Might be a fun way to make some bot traps. -chris

Re: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Philp
Chris Roupp wrote: > > Humm... i wonder what that bogus address does to web bots. Might be a fun way > to make some bot traps. > > -chris If you don't run an HTTP server on the webbot machine, it will do nothing. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTEC